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Wonderland: I Was Once A Beauty Queen
BBC Two, 9pm
It is always fascinating to watch the trajectory of someone’s life
fast-forwarded on television. They don’t have to have been a lottery winner,
a finalist on University Challenge or, in this case, a former beauty
queen — the success of Michael Apted’s Up series proves
that no life is ever uninteresting. But a programme about former beauty
queens promises so much more. How transient is beauty? How do they feel
about beauty contests forty years on? How did it affect their attitudes to
men? Were their lives changed for better or